۶ مطلب با کلمه‌ی کلیدی «Philosophy of Religion» ثبت شده است

Charles Taylor in ‘A Secular Age’ describes an emerging kind of belief -known as ‘believing without belonging’ as Grace Davie coined, or ‘nominalism- through a ‘penumbra’ effect. Although such believers are nominally Jewish, Christian, Muslim and so on, but they take a minimalistic approach to religion/faith and do not employ religious values, morality, and responsibility in their life beyond limited and occasional commitments to religious, social rituals. This diffused belief, however, plays a significant role in society if religion is being considered as ‘social glue.’

In the 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript' Kierkegaard radically confronts what was the mainstream theological accent, i.e. to prove God and the authenticity of religious scriptures objectively with reasoning. It is crucial to differentiate his standpoint with who believe that faith and reason, subjectivity and objectivity, are two wings of the same bird and an individual can use either to find God.

In the ‘Dialogues on Natural Religion’, David Hume put forward various objections to the Argument from Design which is a central pillar of natural theology, including William Paley’s version of it. This note briefly explains the three most significant objections David Hume presented to the argument from Design.

In the Theodicy, Leibniz rehearses something like a trial in which God stands accused of having created a sub-standard world. In this note I demonstrate the basis of Leibniz’s case for the defence and his advocate for the view that the world God created could not have been made better.